Premiere Pro Editing

Getting Started In Premiere

Skills required to edit your footage are an essential part of video and audio production. We will introduce you to a standard video/audio editing suite called Adobe Premiere Pro CC. The supplied material to complete the assignment is located in the Google Classroom. You will need to download a copy of the documents to your own USB drive to ensure none of your material is lost, or erased. If you do not have a USB drive you will need to purchase one for next class.

DAY 2: VIDEO EDITING

Premiere Pro CC Tutorial

Short Video Assignment

Self-Assessment

Premiere Tutorial

Watch the video in its entirety before proceeding to creating your own video.

Over The Shoulder - Tutorial

Download a copy of the images and source files to complete the tutorial.

So this project will create little over a one minute video, that will include a series of interview footage, with voice over talking about the subject while shots of the action process play over it.

Launching Premiere

1) Open Premiere Pro CC, select NEW PROJECT [Download ALL Source files to your computer which are available from the Google Classroom materials section]2) Name it, choose the appropriate save folder (i.e. Onedrive (yourname:\), hit OK[Very useful to use a scratch disc location that is an external drive to ensure computer runs smoothly while completing video editing task; the teacher will explain during class lessons]

​​3) Edit > Preferences > General

​4) Import your source files by going to File > Import, and select all of the files from the source files (Hot Glass Interview); F:\ folder. Remember that Ctrl-clicking selects individual files within a folder and Shift-clicking selects a consecutive range of images/videos within a folder.Ctrl-Atypically selects ALL images in a folder. [VERY IMPORTANT TO ENSURE SOURCE FILES HAVE BEEN SAVED TO YOUR OWN USB or Downloads folder FOR EDITING]Premiere links all support files during workflow and if the original files are moved the link will need to be restored. ​5) In the lower left corner of your screen, click the PROJECT tab if it's not already visible. You should see thumbnail images for the pictures you just imported.

6) In order to make sure they display in numerical/alphabetical order (they often don't in tile view), click on the "three lines button" (see below) and select LIST.

7) In the Source panel,double left click on the Suzi INT - love what I do.mov file(downloaded copy in step 1) which will open the Source preview panel.Within the source panel you can scrub through the video clip. Utilize short-cut keys J K L to run forward, pause and reverse the footage.​

8) Within the source panel you can set mark in and mark out points to shorten, or crop the video length to use in your production. Set your mark in and mark out by selecting the mark in button in the source panel and clicking on the timeline near the beginning of the video clip. Do the same with the mark out button and click on the time near the end of the clip. You will see a highlighted section appear in the timeline of the source panel, which cuts your footage to your desired length.

9) Select all of your source file and DRAG it to the TIMELINE window (just to the right).

NOTE: You will need to move video footage into the V1 field of the timeline. If moving only audio you will place it in the A1 field of the timeline.

10) Continue to edit additional video footage of the glassblowing process to add to your timeline. Keep in mind that you are working with layers, similar to those used in Photoshop and each video field and audio field can be used to simultaneously place video and audio files within your final Project. The project panel can be used to view your project as it would appear in its final form.

11) Now let's add some transitions between images. Go back to the bottom-left window, select the EFFECTS tab, and open up the VIDEO TRANSITIONS folder.

To apply a transition, open up the subfolder you want, choose which transition you want, and click and drag it over to the timeline, dropping it on the track right between two images.

Remember that Ctrl-Z is UNDO!

Preview a segment by using the play controls in the top-right preview (AKA "Program") window. You can use the blue vertical line in your timeline to select a place to start playing.

12) Time to import audio. Go to bensound.com and choose one of the royalty-free sound files to download. Go to File > Import and select the sound file from your Downloads folder.(If Downloads doesn't appear as an option, you can find it by going to C:\users\(yourusername)\downloads.)

13) The audio file should appear in your project window. Drag it to your timeline (to the A1 track).

14) Change your zoom/scale level so you can see the entire audio track, then left-click on the right edge and drag backwards to trim it. You want to trim it to just a little longer than the video (so we can fade out the audio).

15) To fade out the audio, go back to the Effects panel and select Audio Transitions > Crossfade > Constant Power. Drag it to the end of the audio timeline and adjust the size of its box to determine how long the fade-out lasts.

16) Adjust / trim the length of the audio track so it aligns with the end of the video (with fade) just the way you want.